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                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0113T.pdf">DOD's High-Risk Areas: High-Level Commitment and Oversight Needed for DOD Supply Chain Plan to Succeed</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0120T.pdf">VA Disability Benefits: Routine Monitoring of Disability Decisions Could Improve Consistency</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0135T.pdf">Defense Trade: Implementation of Exon-Florio</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0136T.pdf">Federal Real Property: Reliance on Costly Leasing to Meet New Space Needs Is an Ongoing Problem</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0142T.pdf">Human Capital: Preliminary Observations on the Administration's Draft Proposed &quot;Working for America Act&quot;</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0164T.pdf">Securing U.S. Nuclear Materials: Poor Planning Has Complicated DOE's Plutonium Consolidation Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0170T.pdf">Reserve Forces: Army National Guard's Role, Organization, and Equipment Need to be Reexamined</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0174T.pdf">Federal Emergency Management Agency: Challenges Facing the National Flood Insurance Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0175T.pdf">Prescription Drugs: Enhanced Efforts and Better Agency Coordination Needed to Address Illegal Importation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0179T.pdf">Rebuilding Iraq: Enhancing Security, Measuring Program Results, and Maintaining Infrastructure Are Necessary to Make Significant and Sustainable Progress</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0180T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Status of Schedule, Fire Protection, Cost, and Related Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0181T.pdf">Passenger Rail Security: Enhanced Federal Leadership Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0182T.pdf">ATF: Thefts of Explosives from State and Local Government Storage Facilities Are Few but May Be Underreported</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0183T.pdf">Federal Emergency Management Agency: Oversight and Management of the National Flood Insurance Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0201T.pdf">Veterans Affairs: The Role of the Chief Information Officer in Effectively Managing Information Technology</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0207T.pdf">VA Benefits: Other Programs May Provide Lessons for Improving Individual Unemployability Assessments</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0208T.pdf">Tax Gap: Multiple Strategies, Better Compliance Data, and Long-Term Goals Are Needed to Improve Taxpayer Compliance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0216T.pdf">National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Long-standing Financial Management Challenges Threaten the Agency's Ability to Manage Its Programs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0220T.pdf">Financial Institutions: Issues Regarding the Tax-Exempt Status of Credit Unions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0221T.pdf">Influenza Pandemic: Applying Lessons Learned from the 2004-05 Influenza Vaccine Shortage</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0225T.pdf">Veterans' Disability Benefits: Improved Transparency Needed to Facilitate Oversight of VBA's Compensation and Pension Staffing Levels</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0226T.pdf">United Nations: Preliminary Observations on Internal Oversight and Procurement Practices</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0227T.pdf">Human Capital: Observations on Final Regulations for DOD's National Security Personnel System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0228T.pdf">Federal Rulemaking: Past Reviews and Emerging Trends Suggest Issues That Merit Congressional Attention</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0233T.pdf">DOD Personnel Clearances: Government Plan Addresses Some Longstanding Problems with DOD's Program, But Concerns Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0234T.pdf">Defense Management: Foundational Steps Being Taken to Manage DOD Business Systems Modernization, but Much Remains to be Accomplished to Effect True Business Transformation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0235T.pdf">Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Contracting for Response and Recovery Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0242T.pdf">CFO Act of 1990: Driving the Transformation of Federal Financial Management</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0244T.pdf">Army Corps of Engineers: History of the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0245T.pdf">Financial Product Sales: Actions Needed to Protect Military Members</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0246T.pdf">Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Preliminary Observations on Contracting for Response and Recovery Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0248T.pdf">Federal Real Property: Excess and Underutilized Property Is an Ongoing Problem</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0249T.pdf">Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Technical Problems, Cost Increases, and Schedule Delays Trigger Need for Difficult Trade-off Decisions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0251T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Update on Schedule and Cost</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0253T.pdf">Social Security Administration: Procedures for Issuing Numbers and Benefits to the Foreign-Born</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0257T.pdf">DOD Acquisition Outcomes: A Case for Change</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0266T.pdf">Aviation Safety: FAA's Safety Oversight System Is Effective but Could Benefit from Better Evaluation of Its Programs' Performance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0281T.pdf">Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Differences in Health Care Prices Across Metropolitan Areas Linked to Competition and Other Factors</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0283T.pdf">Veterans' Disability Benefits: Claims Processing Challenges and Opportunities for Improvements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0297T.pdf">Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Provision of Charitable Assistance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0318T.pdf">Homeland Security: Visitor and Immigrant Status Program Operating, but Management Improvements Are Still Needed</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0322T.pdf">Hurricane Protection: Statutory and Regulatory Framework for Levee Maintenance and Emergency Response for the Lake Pontchartrain Project</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0333T.pdf">VA Long-Term Care: Trends and Planning Challenges in Providing Nursing Home Care to Veterans</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0335T.pdf">Federal Emergency Management Agency: Challenges for the National Flood Insurance Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0346T.pdf">Health Information Technology: HHS is Continuing Efforts to Define a National Strategy</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0357T.pdf">Veterans' Employment and Training Service: Greater Accountability and Other Labor Actions Needed to Better Serve Veterans</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0370T.pdf">Mine Safety: MSHA's Programs for Ensuring the Safety and Health of Coal Miners Could Be Strengthened</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0371T.pdf">Aviation Security: Enhancements Made in Passenger and Checked Baggage Screening, but Challenges Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0374T.pdf">Aviation Security: Significant Management Challenges May Adversely Affect Implementation of the Transportation Security Administration's Secure Flight Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0398T.pdf">Commercial Aviation: Programs and Options for the Federal Approach to Providing and Improving Air Service to Small Communities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0403T.pdf">Expedited Assistance for Victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: FEMA's Control Weaknesses Exposed the Government to Significant Fraud and Abuse</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0406T.pdf">Fiscal Year 2005 U.S. Government Financial Statements: Sustained Improvement in Federal Financial Management Is Crucial to Addressing Our Nation's Financial Condition and Long-term Fiscal Imbalance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0409T.pdf">Defense Acquisitions: DOD Wastes Billions of Dollars through Poorly Structured Incentives</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0412T.pdf">Energy Markets: Factors Contributing to Higher Gasoline Prices</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0417T.pdf">U.S. Government Accountability Office: Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0418T.pdf">Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0419T.pdf">Public Housing: Information on the Roles of HUD, Public Housing Agencies, Capital Markets, and Service Organizations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0420T.pdf">Natural Gas: Factors Affecting Prices and Potential Impacts on Consumers</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0428T.pdf">Rebuilding Iraq: Stabilization, Reconstruction, and Financing Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0440T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Results of Risk-based Analysis of Schedule and Cost</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0442T.pdf">Hurricane Katrina: GAO's Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness, Response, and Recovery</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0444T.pdf">Census Bureau: Important Activities for Improving Management of Key 2010 Decennial Acquisitions Remain to be Done</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0448T.pdf">Coast Guard: Observations on Agency Performance, Operations and Future Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0453T.pdf">Tax Gap: Making Significant Progress in Improving Tax Compliance Rests on Enhancing Current IRS Techniques and Adopting New Legislative Actions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0456T.pdf">21st Century: Addressing Long-Term Fiscal Challenges Must Include a Re-examination of Mandatory Spending</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0458T.pdf">Social Security Numbers: Coordinated Approach to SSN Data Could Help Reduce Unauthorized Work</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0462T.pdf">Homeland Security: Better Management Practices Could Enhance DHS's Ability to Allocate Investigative Resources</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0465T.pdf">2010 Census: Planning and Testing Activities Are Making Progress</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0467T.pdf">Emergency Preparedness and Response: Some Issues and Challenges Associated with Major Emergency Incidents</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0474T.pdf">Gas Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Observations on the Integrity Management Program and 7-Year Reassessment Requirement</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0477T.pdf">Paperwork Reduction Act: New Approaches Can Strengthen Information Collection and Reduce Burden</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0478T.pdf">Defense Acquisitions: Business Case and Business Arrangements Key for Future Combat System's Success</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0481T.pdf">September 11: Monitoring of World Trade Center Health Effects Has Progressed, but Program for Federal Responders Lags Behind</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0482T.pdf">Financial Management: Challenges Remain in Meeting Requirements of the Improper Payments Information Act</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0484T.pdf">Unemployment Insurance: Factors Associated with Benefit Receipt and Linkages with Reemployment Services for Claimants</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0487T.pdf">Tactical Aircraft: Recapitalization Goals Are Not Supported by Knowledge-Based F-22A and JSF Business Cases</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0492T.pdf">Financial Management: Thousands of GSA Contractors Abuse the Federal Tax System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0499T.pdf">Internal Revenue Service: Assessment of the Interim Results of the 2006 Filing Season and Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0513T.pdf">Telecommunications: Challenges to Assessing and Improving Telecommunications for Native Americans on Tribal Lands</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0523T.pdf">Tactical Aircraft: Recapitalization Goals Are Not Supported by Knowledge-Based F-22A and JSF Business Cases</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0526T.pdf">Telecommunications: Options for and Barriers to Spectrum Reform</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0527T.pdf">Information Security: Federal Agencies Show Mixed Progress in Implementing Statutory Requirements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0528T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Status of Project's Schedule and Cost as of March 15, 2006</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0529T.pdf">Corps of Engineers: Observations on Planning and Project Management Processes for the Civil Works Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0531T.pdf">Managing Sensitive Information: DOE and DOD Could Improve Their Policies and Oversight</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0532T.pdf">Packers and Stockyards Programs: Continuing Problems with GIPSA Investigations of Competitive Practices</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0542T.pdf">Border Security: Reassessment of Consular Resource Requirements Could Help Address Visa Delays</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0548T.pdf">Force Structure: Capabilities and Cost of Army Modular Force Remain Uncertain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0550T.pdf">Yucca Mountain: DOE's Planned Nuclear Waste Repository Faces Quality Assurance and Management Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0553T.pdf">Financial Management Systems: DHS Has an Opportunity to Incorporate Best Practices in Modernization Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0555T.pdf">Nuclear Power: Plants Have Upgraded Security, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Needs to Improve Its Process for Revising the Design Basis Threat</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0557T.pdf">Passenger Rail Security: Evaluating Foreign Security Practices and Risk Can Help Guide Security Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0558T.pdf">Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Challenges Facing U.S. Efforts to Deploy Radiation Detection Equipment in Other Countries and in the United States</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0559T.pdf">Homeland Security: The Status of Strategic Planning in the National Capital Region</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0561T.pdf">Military Disability Evaluation: Ensuring Consistent and Timely Outcomes for Reserve and Active Duty Service Members</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0562T.pdf">Federal Aviation Administration: An Analysis of the Financial Viability of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0563T.pdf">Paid Tax Return Preparers: In a Limited Study, Chain Preparers Made Serious Errors</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0564T.pdf">Defense Acquisitions: Improved Business Case Key for Future Combat System's Success</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0569T.pdf">Title Insurance: Preliminary Views and Issues for Further Study</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0572T.pdf">Highway Trust Fund: Overview of Highway Trust Fund Estimates</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0573T.pdf">Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Cost Increases Trigger Review and Place Program's Direction on Hold</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0574T.pdf">Next Generation Air Transportation System: Preliminary Analysis of the Joint Planning and Development Office's Planning, Progress, and Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0578T.pdf">Medicaid Integrity: Implementation of New Program Provides Opportunities for Federal Leadership to Combat Fraud and Abuse</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0581T.pdf">Financial Management: Challenges Continue in Meeting Requirements of the Improper Payments Information Act</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0583T.pdf">Border Security: Investigators Transported Radioactive Sources Across Our Nation's Borders at Two Locations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0585T.pdf">Defense Acquisitions: Actions Needed to Get Better Results on Weapons Systems Investments</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0586T.pdf">Social Security Numbers: More Could be Done to Protect SSNs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0587T.pdf">Defense Acquisitions: Challenges Associated with the Navy's Long-Range Shipbuilding Plans</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0588T.pdf">Gas Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Observations on the Implementation of the Integrity Management Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0591T.pdf">Cargo Container Inspections: Preliminary Observations on the Status of Efforts to Improve the Automated Targeting System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0597T.pdf">Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Made Progress in Managing a Federal Security Workforce and Ensuring Security at U.S. Airports, but Challenges Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0598T.pdf">Homeland Security: Progress Continues, but Challenges Remain on Department's Management of Information Technology</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0600T.pdf">Hurricane Katrina: Policies and Procedures Are Needed to Ensure Appropriate Use of and Accountability for International Assistance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0601T.pdf">Federal Rulemaking: Perspectives on 10 Years of Congressional Review Act Implementation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0602T.pdf">Hanford Waste Treatment Plant: Contractor and DOE Management Problems Have Led to Higher Costs, Construction Delays, and Safety Concerns</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0604T.pdf">Defense Logistics: Preliminary Observations on Equipment Reset Challenges and Issues for the Army and Marine Corps</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0605T.pdf">Small Business Administration: Improvements Made, but Loan Programs Face Ongoing Management Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0606T.pdf">Nuclear Weapons: Views on Proposals to Transform the Nuclear Weapons Complex</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0608T.pdf">U.S.-China Trade: Challenges and Choices to Apply Countervailing Duties to China</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0609T.pdf">Personal Information: Agencies and Resellers Vary in Providing Privacy Protections</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0610T.pdf">Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Improved Planning and Acquisition Strategies Can Help Address Operational Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0614T.pdf">Chesapeake Bay Program: Improved Strategies Needed to Better Guide Restoration Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0615T.pdf">Internal Revenue Service: Assessment of the Interim Results of the 2006 Filing Season and Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0622T.pdf">Hurricane Katrina: Planning for and Management of Federal Disaster Recovery Contracts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0626T.pdf">Space Acquisitions: Improvements Needed in Space Systems Acquisitions and Keys to Achieving Them</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0628T.pdf">National Saving: Current Saving Decisions Have Profound Implications for Our Nation's Future Well-Being</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0631T.pdf">National Park Service: Major Operations Funding Trends and How Selected Park Units Responded to Those Trends for Fiscal Years 2001 through 2005</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0632T.pdf">Terrorist Financing: Agencies Can Improve Efforts to Deliver Counter-Terrorism-Financing Training and Technical Assistance Abroad</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0653T.pdf">Air Traffic Control Modernization: Status of the Current Program and Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0657T.pdf">Military Pay: Military Debts Present Significant Hardships to Hundreds of Sick and Injured GWOT Soldiers</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0660T.pdf">Export Promotion: Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee's Role Remains Limited</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0665T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Update on Status of Project's Schedule and Cost as of April 27, 2006</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0681T.pdf">Ryan White CARE Act: AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, Perinatal HIV Transmission, and Partner Notification</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0694T.pdf">Natural Resources: Woody Biomass Users' Experiences Provide Insights for Ongoing Government Efforts to Promote Its Use</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0696T.pdf">Unemployment Insurance: Enhancing Program Performance by Focusing on Improper Payments and Reemployment Services</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0697T.pdf">Rebuilding Iraq: Governance, Security, Reconstruction, and Financing Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0698T.pdf">Federal Bureau of Investigation: Weak Controls over Trilogy Project Led to Payment of Questionable Contractor Costs and Missing Assets</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0701T.pdf">United Nations: Internal Oversight and Procurement Controls and Processes Need Strengthening</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0702T.pdf">Higher Education: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Trends and the Role of Federal Programs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0703T.pdf">Ryan White CARE Act: Changes Needed to Improve the Distribution of Funding</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0707T.pdf">U.S. Public Diplomacy: State Department Efforts Lack Certain Communication Elements and Face Persistent Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0711T.pdf">United Nations: Oil for Food Program Provides Lessons for Future Sanctions and Ongoing Reform</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0714T.pdf">Hurricane Katrina: Improving Federal Contracting Practices in Disaster Recovery Operations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0715T.pdf">Medicare: Quality of CMS Communications to Beneficiaries on the Prescription Drug Benefit Could Be Improved</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0738T.pdf">Air Traffic Control: Status of the Current Modernization Program and Planning for the Next Generation System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0740T.pdf">Continuity of Operations: Agencies Could Improve Planning for Telework during Disruptions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0742T.pdf">Futures Markets: Approach for Examining Oversight of Energy Futures</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0746T.pdf">Federal Emergency Management Agency: Factors for Future Success and Issues to Consider for Organizational Placement</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0747T.pdf">DOD Personnel Clearances: Funding Challenges and Other Impediments Slow Clearances for Industry Personnel</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0748T.pdf">DOD Personnel Clearances: New Concerns Slow Processing of Clearances for Industry Personnel</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0749T.pdf">Military Personnel: DOD Has Taken Steps to Address Servicemembers' Financial Needs, but Additional Effort Is Warranted</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0755T.pdf">Tax Debt: Some Combined Federal Campaign Charities Owe Payroll and Other Federal Taxes</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0756T.pdf">Anthrax: Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Steps to Validate Sampling Methods and to Develop a Next-Generation Anthrax Vaccine</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0760T.pdf">VA Health Care: Patient Safety Could be Enhanced by Improvements in Employment Screening and Physician Privileging Practices</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0761T.pdf">Budget Process: Better Transparency, Controls, Triggers, and Default Mechanisms Would Help to Address Our Large and Growing Long-term Fiscal Challenge</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0773T.pdf">Foreign Physicians: Preliminary Findings on the Use of J-1 Visa Waivers to Practice in Underserved Areas</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0774T.pdf">Environmental Protection Agency: Progress Has Been Made in Grant Reforms, but Weaknesses Remain in Implementation and Accountability</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0777T.pdf">Privacy: Key Challenges Facing Federal Agencies</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0779T.pdf">Social Security Administration: Agency Is Positioning Itself to Implement Its New Disability Determination Process, but Key Facets Are Still in Development</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0787T.pdf">Child Welfare: Federal Oversight of State IV-B Activities Could Inform Action Needed to Improve Services to Families and Statutory Compliance</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0790T.pdf">Disaster Preparedness: Preliminary Observations on the Evacuation of Vulnerable Populations due to Hurricanes and Other Diasasters</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0800T.pdf">DOD Acquisitions: Contracting for Better Outcomes</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0801T.pdf">National Transportation Safety Board: Preliminary Observations on the Value of Comprehensive Planning, and Greater Use of Leading Practices and the Training Academy</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0803T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Update on Status of Projects's Schedule and Cost As of May 24, 2006</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0808T.pdf">Hurricane Katrina: Better Plans and Exercises Need to Guide the Military's Response to Catastrophic Natural Disasters</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0822T.pdf">2010 Census: Costs and Risks Must be Closely Monitored and Evaluated with Mitigation Plans in Place</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0827T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Update on Status of Project's Schedule and Cost As of June 28, 2006</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0828T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Update on Status of Project's Schedule and Cost As of August 2, 2006</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0833T.pdf">Privacy: Preventing and Responding to Improper Disclosures of Personal Information</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0840T.pdf">Environmental Compliance and Enforcement: EPA's Effort to Improve and Make More Consistent Its Compliance and Enforcement Activities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0843T.pdf">Financial Services Industry: Overall Trends in Management-Level Diversity and Diversity Initiatives, 1993-2004</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0844T.pdf">Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief: Improper and Potentially Fraudulent Individual Assistance Payments Estimated to Be Between $600 Million and $1.4 Billion</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0851T.pdf">Tax Compliance: Challenges to Corporate Tax Enforcement and Options to Improve Securities Basis Reporting</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0855T.pdf">Intermodal Transportation: Challenges to and Potential Strategies for Developing Improved Intermodal Capabilities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0861T.pdf">Office of Personnel Management: OPM Is Taking Steps to Strengthen Its Internal Capacity for Leading Human Capital Reform</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0863T.pdf">Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0864T.pdf">Aviation Security: Management Challenges Remain for the Transportation Security Administration's Secure Flight Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0865T.pdf">Rebuilding Iraq: Actions Still Needed to Improve the Use of Private Security Providers</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0866T.pdf">Veterans Affairs: Leadership Needed to Address Information Security Weaknesses and Privacy Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0868T.pdf">Federal Housing Administration: Proposed Reforms Will Heighten the Need for Continued Improvements in Managing Risks and Estimating Program Costs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0871T.pdf">Invasive Forest Pests: Recent Infestations and Continued Vulnerabilities at Ports of Entry Place U.S. Forests at Risk</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0874T.pdf">Alaska Native Corporations: Increased Use of Special 8(a) Provisions Calls for Tailored Oversight</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0875T.pdf">Aviation Security: TSA Has Strengthened Efforts to Plan for the Optimal Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems, but Funding Uncertainties Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0877T.pdf">United Nations: Weaknesses in Internal Oversight and Procurement Could Affect the Effective Implementation of the Planned Renovation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0878T.pdf">Crop Insurance: More Needs To Be Done to Reduce Program's Vulnerability to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0879T.pdf">Clinical Labs: CMS and Survey Organization Oversight Is Not Sufficient to Ensure Lab Quality</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0884T.pdf">Environmental Liabilities: Hardrock Mining Cleanup Obligations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0885T.pdf">Global War on Terrorism: Observations on Funding, Costs, and Future Commitments</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0886T.pdf">Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Preliminary Observations on Its Oversight to Ensure the Safe Operation of Nuclear Power Plants</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0888T.pdf">Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Preliminary Observations on Its Process to Oversee the Safe Operation of Nuclear Power Plants</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0892T.pdf">Federal Courthouses: Rent Increases Due to New Space and Growing Energy and Security Costs Require Better Tracking and Management</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0895T.pdf">Immigration Enforcement: Weaknesses Hinder Employment Verification and Worksite Enforcement Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0896T.pdf">Wildland Fire Suppression: Better Guidance Needed to Clarify Sharing of Costs between Federal and Nonfederal Entities</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0897T.pdf">Information Security: Leadership Needed to Address Weaknesses and Privacy Issues at Veterans Affairs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0898T.pdf">Freight Railroads: Preliminary Observations on Rates, Competition, and Capacity Issues</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0899T.pdf">Homeland Security: DHS Is Addressing Security at Chemical Facilities, but Additional Authority Is Needed</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0900T.pdf">Superfund: Better Financial Assurances and More Effective Implementation of Institutional Controls Are Needed to Protect the Public</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0901T.pdf">H-1B Visa Program: More Oversight by Labor Can Improve Compliance with Program Requirements</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0904T.pdf">Community Development Block Grant Formula: Options for Improving the Targeting of Funds</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0905T.pdf">Information Technology: VA and DOD Face Challenges in Completing Key Efforts</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0910T.pdf">Public Transportation: Preliminary Information on FTA's Implementation of SAFETEA-LU Changes</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0915T.pdf">Next Generation Air Transportation System: Preliminary Analysis of Progress and Challenges Associated with the Transformation of the National Airspace System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0930T.pdf">Renewable Energy: Increased Geothermal Development Will Depend on Overcoming Many Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0933T.pdf">Maritime Security: Information-Sharing Efforts Are Improving</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0939T.pdf">Border Security: Investigators Transported Radioactive Sources Across Our Nation's Borders at Two Locations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0940T.pdf">Border Security: Investigators Transported Radioactive Sources Across Our Nation's Borders at Two Locations</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0948T.pdf">No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0953T.pdf">Rebuilding Iraq: More Comprehensive National Strategy Needed to Help Achieve U.S. Goals and Overcome Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0954T.pdf">Individual Disaster Assistance Programs: Framework for Fraud Prevention, Detection, and Prosecution</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0957T.pdf">Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave DHS Highly Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Improper, and Abusive Activity</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0961T.pdf">Industrial Loan Corporations: Recent Asset Growth and Commercial Interest Highlight Differences in Regulatory Authority</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0971T.pdf">Medicare Part B Drugs: CMS Data Source for Setting Payments Is Practical but Concerns Remain</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0974T.pdf">Paperwork Reduction Act: Increase in Estimated Burden Hours Highlights Need for New Approach</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0976T.pdf">Border Security: Continued Weaknesses in Screening Entrants into the United States</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0977T.pdf">Nutrigenetic Testing: Tests Purchased from Four Web Sites Mislead Consumers</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0981T.pdf">DOD Excess Property: Control Breakdowns Present Significant Security Risk and Continuing Waste and Inefficiency</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0983T.pdf">DOD's High-Risk Areas: Challenges Remain to Achieving and Demonstrating Progress in Supply Chain Management</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0991T.pdf">Tactical Aircraft: Questions Concerning the F-22A's Business Case</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0992T.pdf">Particulate Matter: EPA Needs to Make More Progress in Addressing the National Academies' Recommendations on Estimating Health Benefits</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0997T.pdf">Rail Transit: Observations on FTA's State Safety Oversight Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-0998T.pdf">Regulatory Flexibility Act: Congress Should Revisit and Clarify Elements of the Act to Improve Its Effectiveness</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1000T.pdf">Tax Compliance: Opportunities Exist to Reduce the Tax Gap Using a Variety of Approaches</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1004T.pdf">Intellectual Property: Initial Observations on the STOP Initiative and U.S. Border Efforts to Reduce Piracy</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1005T.pdf">Real Estate Brokerage: Various Factors May Affect Price Competition</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1006T.pdf">Department of Defense: Sustained Leadership Is Critical to Effective Financial and Business Management Transformation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1008T.pdf">Medicare Physician Payments: Trends in Service Utilization, Spending, and Fees Prompt Consideration of Alternative Payment Approaches</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1009T.pdf">2010 Census: Redesigned Approach Holds Promise, but Census Bureau Needs to Annually Develop and Provide a Comprehensive Project Plan to Monitor Costs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1012T.pdf">Homeland Security: Challenges in Creating an Effective Acquisition Organization</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1022T.pdf">Freedom of Information Act: Preliminary Analysis of Processing Trends Shows Importance of Improvement Plans</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1027T.pdf">Gas Pipeline Safety: Views on Proposed Legislation to Reauthorize Pipeline Safety Provisions</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1028T.pdf">Individual Income Tax Policy: Streamlining, Simplification, and Additional Reforms Are Desirable</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1032T.pdf">Chemical Regulation: Actions are Needed to Improve the Effectiveness of EPA's Chemical Review Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1058T.pdf">Capitol Visitor Center: Update on Status of Project's Schedule and Cost as of September 21, 2006</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1071T.pdf">Health Information Technology: HHS is Continuing Efforts to Define Its National Strategy</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1086T.pdf">Guardianships: Little Progress in Ensuring Protection for Incapacitated Elderly People</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1087T.pdf">Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Leadership Needed to Enhance Cybersecurity</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1089T.pdf">Global Health: Spending Requirement Presents Challenges for Allocating Prevention Funding under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1090T.pdf">Border Security: Stronger Actions Needed to Assess and Mitigate Risks of the Visa Waiver Program</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1091T.pdf">Aviation Safety: FAA's Safety Efforts Generally Strong but Face Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1092T.pdf">September 11: HHS Has Screened Additional Federal Responders for World Trade Center Health Effects, but Plans for Awarding Funds for Treatment Are Incomplete</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1094T.pdf">Stabilizing Iraq: An Assessment of the Security Situation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1096T.pdf">Homeland Security: Assessment of the National Capital Region Strategic Plan</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1099T.pdf">Information Technology: Improvements Needed to More Accurately Identify and Better Oversee Risky Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1100T.pdf">Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1107T.pdf">Alaska Native Allotments: Alternatives to Address Conflicts with Utility Rights-of-way</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1109T.pdf">Reserve Forces: Army National Guard and Army Reserve Readiness for 21st Century Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1110T.pdf">Nuclear Energy: DOE's Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project Is at an Early Stage of Development</a></li>
                       
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                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1113T.pdf">Business Tax Reform: Simplification and Increased Uniformity of Taxation Would Yield Benefits</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1114T.pdf">National Airspace System Modernization: Observations on Potential Funding Options for FAA and the Next Generation Airspace System</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1116T.pdf">Human Capital: Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay Suggest a Reexamination of the Total Compensation Package</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1119T.pdf">VA Health Care: Preliminary Information on Resources Allocated for Mental Health Strategic Plan Initiatives</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1121T.pdf">No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions Needed to Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1122T.pdf">Climate Change: Greater Clarity and Consistency Are Needed in Reporting Federal Climate Change Funding</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1125T.pdf">Human Capital: Aligning Senior Executives' Performance with Organizational Results Is an Important Step Toward Governmentwide Transformation</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1126T.pdf">Climate Change: Federal Agencies Should Do More to Make Funding Reports Clearer and Encourage Progress on Two Voluntary Programs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1127T.pdf">NASA: Sound Management and Oversight Key to Addressing Crew Exploration Vehicle Project Risks</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1128T.pdf">Nuclear Nonproliferation: IAEA Safeguards and Other Measures to Halt the Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Material</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1129T.pdf">Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Additional Action Needed to Incorporate Lessons Learned from Other Satellite Programs</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1130T.pdf">Rebuilding Iraq: Continued Progress Requires Overcoming Contract Management Challenges</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1133T.pdf">Health Savings Accounts: Early Enrollee Experiences with Accounts and Eligible Health Plans</a></li>
                       
                           <li><a href="http://docs.govdoc.org/us/legi/gao/testimony/GAO-2006-1134T.pdf">Elections: DOD Expands Voting Assistance to Military Absentee Voters, but Challenges Remain</a></li>
                       
                   
               
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